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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Cycling, skateboarding, rollerblading
Why would someone set out on a bicycle tour of Ireland? Because
Ireland is as stunning a country as any you'll ever visit. There's
the extraordinary light, which adds intensity to everything, making
greens and whites appear greener and whiter. It's all there:
moss-covered mountains rising ominously from the mist, bright blue
skies over white sandy beaches; the ghostlike ruins of ancient
monasteries on misty days... With picturesque routes and
breathtaking landscapes, Ireland is beloved by cyclists in search
of an exhilarating yet memorable experience. In Green Tour of
Ireland, avid cyclist Paul Benjaminse explores the a route around
Ireland from Belfast to Dublin via the most spectacular and scenic
routes in the country and offers his expert advice on the best way
to see the beautiful parts of Ireland. Includes detailed routes and
maps of; Ulster Sligo Cork Connemara The Burren Leinster and the
Dublin Mountains.
For All Levels of Performance. This book covers all aspects of
training. It shows readers how to assess their fitness, set up
their own training plan based on their individual skills and needs.
Provides well-founded instructions for mountain bike training while
always taking scientific principles of training and
discipline-specific criteria into account Cross Country, Marathon,
etc..
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full
of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical
tales' Mail on Sunday A panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle
whose passenger is also its engine. A toy, a tool, a liberator, or
complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people
over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of
transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so
much? Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes
our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in
1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers
meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered
bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races
mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating
bicycle in zero gravity. By examining the bicycle's past and
peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an
engineering marvel of global importance. 'Funny, precise,
surprising' Adam Gopnik 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs
through every sentence' Economist 'Wry, rich, deeply researched'
Patrick Radden Keefe
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